The potential of chickpea as a new grain legume crop for Canterbury was evaluated in both field and glasshouse experiments. Seed of the kabuli type was sown in a Templeton silt loam soil at varying plant population, with ...

Lucerne (Medioago sativa L. 2n=32) is one of the chief forage crop plants and has an increasing importance in the New Zealand farming system.
The natural variability in lucerne is considerable. This is mainly because ...

Memon, A.; Johnston, K.(Commonwealth Local Government Forum and the UTS Centre for Local Government, 2008-05)

There has been enormous activity in many countries and by international agencies during the last few decades to develop indicators to measure trends in different attributes of the environment, including indicators for ...

The Chatham petrel (Pterodroma axillaris) is an endangered species restricted to a single population on
South East Island, Chatham Islands, New Zealand. The key threat to Chatham petrel breeding success is
interference ...

Entomology, like many other biological disciplines has developed into a quantitative science in nearly all aspects of the subject. Insect ecology is no exception, and in fact, has probably received more attention recently ...

An open system of incubation was developed to measure sulphur mineralisation in a wide range of New Zealand soils. During 10 weeks of incubation at 30°C, the amount of sulphur mineralised varied from 2.9 to 26.8 µg sulphur ...

A population of 58 seedling yarrow (Achillea millefolium) plants m⁻² produced approximately 243,000 viable seeds per square metre in the first season of growth and development. Approximately 10% of the freshly harvested ...

Natural protected areas are a resource for, and in which, a wide range of
values is identified; market value, non-market value, and intrinsic value.
National park history, philosophy and legislation is interpreted to ...

Acacia melanoxylon provenance trials were assessed to investigate: (1) The degree to which insect populations influence growth and the change from juvenile to mature foliage. (2) How tree growth rates and overall performance ...

Considerable scope exists for the reduction of the primary and secondary costs associated with crop protection, by the formulation of judicious fungicide application regimes. The design, building and operation of a farm-level ...